If there was anything that depressed him more than his own cynicism, it was that quite often it still wasn't as cynical as real life.
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Terry Pratchett
Life–the way it really is–is a battle not between good and bad, but between bad and worse
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Joseph Brodsky
Every ounce of my cynicism is supported by historical precedent.
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Glen Cook
Life is not an easy matter…. You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above weakness, above all kinds of perfidy and baseness.
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Leon Trotsky
All I ask is one thing, and I’m asking this particularly of young people: please don’t be cynical. I hate cynicism, for the record, it’s my least favorite quality and it doesn’t lead anywhere. Nobody in life gets exactly what they thought they were going...
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Conan OBrien
More Quotes By Harry Emerson Fosdick
The most extraordinary thing about the oyster is this. Irritation gets into his shell. He does not like them. But when he cannot get rid of them he uses the irritation to do the lovelist thing an oyster ever has the chance to do. <span...
No horse gets anywhere until he is harnessed. No steam or gas ever drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows great until it is focused dedicated disciplined.
Christians are supposed not merely to endure change nor even to profit by it but to cause it.
Watch what people are cynical about and one can often discover what they lack.
Democracy is based upon the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people.
